The Imperial Lanterns Of The Night

Author William Gibson aptly described the swarming visual and emotional contrasts of Japan in his sci-fi masterpiece Neuromancer, “All the speed he took, all the turns he’d taken and the corners he’d cut in Night City, and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void…” As Japan is the nexus for cyberspace, the existence of reality cannot be quantified by an individual’s geographic proximity.